2021-10-04
54 分钟So at the age of 24, living in Ibiza, Matt Haig stepped to a ledge on a cliff with the intention of launching himself to his end.
But something pulled him back.
That experience.
It led him and his girlfriend, who had eventually become his wife, back to his childhood home, where Matt would begin a process of picking up the pieces of his life.
A writer, he has kept that season of profound darkness and revelation and recovery within his family while he deepened into a career as a novelist and a children's book author.
It was always there, but never let seen the light of day outside of those who knew him best, not even his friends.
But years later, many years later, a simple blog post that he never thought anyone would see effectively outed that experience, leading soon after to a book a year later called reasons to stay alive that became this massive bestseller and also expanded Met's notoriety into the world of personal growth.
He has since blended fiction and nonfiction, penning more novels, sometimes exploring big existential questions, but in honest and accessible ways.
In his book, the Midnight Library just hit 2 million copies sold in the US.
And Matt's latest book, the comfort book, is kind of like his life raft.
It's a collection of notes and lists and stories written over a span of several years that originally served as gentle reminders to his future self that things are not always as dark as they may seem.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields and this is good life project.
I'm looking forward to writing actually sitting down and writing something new because most of this year I haven't done.
What do you look for with that?
I'm curious, is there something that kind of lets you know it's time to sit down?
Or do you just sort of say, I have a deadline, I need to start putting words on a page?
Yeah.
I've had to be quite strict with my UK publishers and PR people, and I've got auto responses and I'm sort of saying, okay, we haven't got a book literally out now.
So other than my prior commitments, I'm just going to keep my head down and get.